Archive for November 25th, 2008

Starving for Change

If you need a reason to be thankful this holiday season or if you find yourself taking Life’s little gifts for granted? This story will surely change your perspective.
The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country, many of them elderly or single women with children, have grown by at least 30 percent since the [...]

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Maddow’s “Talk Me Down” and Poll: Should Bush Officials be Prosecuted?

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show’s”Talk me Down” segment, the topic was “is there too much cum-ba-ya or making nice” on behalf of the incoming Obama administration regarding the possible prosecution for the lawlessness of the Bush administration and the precedence of crimes committed. Rachel spoke with Slate’s Senior Editor and Jurisprudence Writer, Dahlia Lithwick concerning her thoughts on post-Bush accountability [...]

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GAO:Bush Labor Department misled Congress regarding “competitive sourcing”

Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs
Source: by John Byrne  Raw Story
President George W. Bush’s Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.
The report (pdf here) found that [...]

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